Love is all you need: A content analysis of romantic scenes in Chinese entertainment television

Brown, John Russell; Zhao, Xinshu; Wang, Mena Ning; Liu, Quan; Lu, Amy; Li, Lucille Jing; Ortiz, Rebecca; Liao, Shengqing; Zhang, Guoliang

doi:10.1080/01292986.2012.729148

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“…Nearly half of the sexual intercourse portrayals across network and cable television are staged outside of relational commitment (Kunkel et al, 2007). Correspondingly, one study of Chinese television noted that over half of all love scenes were devoid of sexual talk or behavior, and only 2% of love scenes depicted or implied sexual intercourse (Brown et al, 2013). …”

Section: Sexual Content On Televisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unfortunately, despite the aforementioned exception (Brown et al, 2013), little attention has been paid to analyzing the frequency and nature of cues about love. Rather, concentration has been placed on the description and analysis of sexual content among either television for general audiences (e.g., Kunkel et al, 2007; Ward, 1995) or television viewed by adolescents (e.g., Brown et al, 2006).…”

Section: Sexual Content On Televisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Contextualization of sex within relational contexts, as opposed to recreational contexts, has been most often used to indicate whether sexual partners are in love (relational) or not in love (recreational); identification of these contexts are based on such cues as prior dating behavior, intent to see the sexual partner again, or talk/behavior indicating monogamy, love, or intent to procreate (Mahay, Laumann, & Michaels, 2005; Markle, 2008; Ward, 1995). Brown et al (2013) extended the operationalization of expressions of love to behaviors indicative of romantic tenderness (e.g., caresses, hand-holding) and talk about romantic liking, love, relationship building, and relationship harm, which encompasses a wider range of behaviors and feelings associated with the attitudes of love at the beginning, middle, and end of romantic relationships (Hammock & Richardson, 2011). …”

Section: Sexual Content On Televisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet, as will be discussed further below, a significant portion of the sexual content that has traditionally hosted sexual health messages (see Kunkel et al, 2007) might reside within content suggestive of love (Brown et al, 2013; Ward, 1995). Unfortunately, information about sexual health, risk, and responsibility messages on television is a decade old, if not longer; existing knowledge of the media environment might not reflect the current landscape, given how rapidly sexual content increases and changes in entertainment media (Kunkel et al, 2007; Strasburger & The Council on Communications and Media, 2010).…”

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Sex, Love, and Risk-n-Responsibility: A Content Analysis of Entertainment Television

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Stevens

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Mass Communication and Society

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This study documents the extent of sexual content, including sexual health content, in scenes with and without expressions of love on network and cable television popular with emerging adults. Sexual talk and/or behavior was found in 20% of all television scenes coded across 53.5 hours of programming. A third of these scenes featured sex alongside expressions of love. An additional 10% of scenes suggested love but not sex. Coded as a separate category, 25% of analyzed scenes contained a passing joke or pun referencing sexual organs, making these non-specific comedic one-liners the predominant reference to sex in this sample. Beyond jokes, most of the sexual or loving talk in this sample consisted of expressing a romantic interest in someone; sex- and love-related behaviors largely consisted of kissing or flirting. Very few scenes specifically referenced sexual intercourse. Sexual health messages were also rare. The majority of scenes mentioning any health consequence (= 7% of analyzed scenes) concerned emotional heartache. One scene mentioned sexually-transmitted infections; 12 of the nearly 2,600 scenes coded mentioned condoms or contraceptives. It is thus a challenging proposition to build upon existing sexual depictions on television to promote safe sex practices within sexual and loving contexts.

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Section: Sexual Content On Televisionmentioning

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Sex, Love, and Risk-n-Responsibility: A Content Analysis of Entertainment Television

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Mass Communication and Society

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“…Many studies have found that women are more likely than men to be shown in domestic activities or romantic relationships and less often in professional roles (McArthur, 1975;Seggar, 1975;Dominick, 1979;Downs, 1981;Mackey & Hess, 1982;Lovdal, 1989;Atkin, 1991;Glascock, 2001;Gorman, 2005;Walsh & Jefferson, 2008;Feng & Karan, 2011;Siu &Au, 2011;Huang & Lowry, 2012;Brown, Zhao, Wang, Liu, Lu, Li, & Zhang, 2013;).…”

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Is it funny because it's not true? Chinese people's perceptions of aggressive female characters in Asian comedies

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Casual Sexual Scripts on the Screen: A Quantitative Content Analysis

Timmermans

Bulck

2018

Arch Sex Behav

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While existing content analyses have provided insightful information in terms of contextual factors and frequency of sexual behaviors, not much is known about the relational context in which sexual depictions generally occur. The current study addresses this void by employing content analytic methods to measure the frequency and context of depictions of sexual behavior within nine popular television shows produced in the U.S., while taking into account the type of sexual behavior. The results suggest that, in the analyzed television shows, sexual behaviors within a casual sexual context were almost as frequently shown as sexual behaviors within a committed relationship context. Whereas sexual behaviors within a committed relationship context were mainly limited to passionate kissing, sexual behaviors within a casual sexual context mostly consisted of explicit portrayals of sexual intercourse. Additionally, genre seemed to be an important factor when examining casual sexual television content. The situational comedy genre, for example, had no explicit portrayals of intercourse and mainly portrayed kissing couples within a committed relationship. The comedy drama genre, on the contrary, had the largest proportion of explicit sexual portrayals, usually between casual sexual partners. A second goal of this study was to analyze the portrayals of the typical casual sexual experience script and the typical casual sexual relationship script in which these sexual behaviors often occur. For instance, our analyses revealed that female characters were more likely to initiate casual sex compared to male characters. Moreover, casual sex often occurred between former partners.

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Love is all you need: A content analysis of romantic scenes in Chinese entertainment television

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Sex, Love, and Risk-n-Responsibility: A Content Analysis of Entertainment Television

Sex, Love, and Risk-n-Responsibility: A Content Analysis of Entertainment Television

Is it funny because it's not true? Chinese people's perceptions of aggressive female characters in Asian comedies

Casual Sexual Scripts on the Screen: A Quantitative Content Analysis

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